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Article: JUDGMENT DAY FOR WEST HAM; Curbishley sure he can win [pounds sterling]40m battle and end season of horror.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 13, 2007
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Byline: DANIEL KING
ALAN CURBISHLEY and Eggert Magnusson are 90 minutes from redemption. On the field at least.
Against all the odds, and to the disgust of many in football, the men who walked into crisis club West Ham within three weeks of each other at the end of last year are within touching distance of saving them from relegation.
Despite the controversy raging about Carlos Tevez and the anger of the so-called 'Gang of Four' clubs lined up against them, Magnusson and Curbishley have been working together to conjure somehow a happy, silver-screen ending from a Hammer horror movie of a season.
When former biscuit baron Magnusson ...